>From: Barbara Lamar <shabrika@juno.com>
>"Society" shouldn't be making such choices in the first place. It's the
>individual WOMAN who has to use up her energy, her time, her spirit
>growing the embryo into a baby.
Listen, as a father of two children I know that pregancy and labor are no
picnic for the woman. But, since you are a mother I'm sure you realize that
the *real* labor doesn't start until *after* the baby is born. Moreover,
even if pregnancy and labor were harder than actually raising the child
(which I *highly* doubt), pregnancy & labor last at most approx. 9 months.
Raising a kid is a job for life (or at least 18 years).
People (usually women) always argue for the *woman's* right to choose,
because she does all the work of pregnancy and labor. My response is "So
what?" The hardest and longest part of having a child is rearing once it
gets here, and in this the man has every bit as much responsibility as the
woman. Yes, I know that not every man lives up to this responsibility. But
that's beside the point. Even if all men are not as actively involved in
their kids lives as mothers are, they usually foot most of the bill
financially.
Yet, nobody ever talks about the *man's* right to choose. Once he delivers
the seed, he has no say about whether the fetus is aborted or allowed to
become a human being whom the father will be responsible (financially, if
not otherwise) for the next 18 years. Rather than a *woman's* right to
choose, how about the *parents'* right to choose?
> I know I'm treading on VERY thin ice with the following statement, but
>I'd argue in favor of a woman's right to dispose of a newly born baby.
Well, I could go on for another hour or two in response to that... But
suffice it to say that what you are advocating is clearly the right to
murder the most defenseless members of society. Hitler would be proud.
-Zero
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